Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to all scientific papers by 2020

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers

This renowned mathematician is bent on proving academic journals can cost nothing

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/4/11160540/timothy-gowers-discrete-analysis

Sci-Hub: What It Is and Why It Matters

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/why-sci-hub-matters/

Open Access 2015: A Year Access Negotiators Edged Closer to the Brink

http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2016/02/01/open-access-2015-a-year-access-negotiators-edged-closer-to-the-brink/

Legacy publishers are not our friends. Can’t we just admit it?

https://svpow.com/2016/06/01/legacy-publishers-are-not-our-friends-cant-we-just-admit-it/

After SSRN: Hallmarks of trust for subject repositories

https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=933

Major Journal Publisher Admits to Fabricating Peer Reviews

http://www.sciencealert.com/major-journal-publisher-admits-to-fabricating-peer-reviews?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=InArticleReadMore

Open Access Papers Have a Greater Citation Advantage in the Author-Pays Model Compared to Toll Access Papers in Springer and Elsevier Open Access Journals

https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/26054

Group of biologists bypasses journals and uploads their work straight to the Internet

http://www.sciencealert.com/a-group-of-biologists-are-bypassing-journals-and-uploading-their-work-straight-to-the-internet

Internet freedom: why access is becoming a human right

http://theconversation.com/internet-freedom-why-access-is-becoming-a-human-right-59125

Is Unrestricted Internet Access a Modern Human Right? (2015)

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/02/unrestricted-internet-access-human-rights-technology-constitution/

United Nations Declares Internet Access a Basic Human Right (2011)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/united-nations-declares-internet-access-a-basic-human-right/239911/

8 Awesome Science Resources that you can access online for free

http://www.sciencealert.com/8-awesome-science-resources-that-you-can-access-online-for-free

Plurality, partnership and pellucidity – the three ‘p’s of open access monograph publishing

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/plurality-partnership-and-pellucidity-the-three-ps-of-open-access-monograph-publishing-28-jan